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04-18-2013 04:32 AM

nalu86

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwheeler91

How thicks is the glass and how much bowing do you have?

It should be mentioned somewhere in the thread. Its just a standard 75.

Its still going strong. I just emptied it for moving.

It will go trough its 3rd move... hope it survives it.

01-27-2013 11:59 PM

kwheeler91

How thicks is the glass and how much bowing do you have?

01-27-2013 06:23 PM

magnum

I'll be damned congrats

01-26-2013 12:04 AM

rawalstrom

Is it still together? I plan to de-rim a 75g in the future for a riparium project and am curious about the sustainability of rimless.

03-29-2012 06:08 AM

nalu86

Quote:

Originally Posted by lbacha

That glass brace is actually the support memeber on those tanks (I'm thinking it is an oceanic right). If you take the rim off of a tank like a 55g you will have a huge mess on your hands. I would watch doing it to any tank that has a center brace built into the plastic rim it is there for a reason. I have seen full 55's bow out 2-3" when the center brace broke. Ithen shattered at the top and you know the rest. Any tank that doesn't have a center brace doesn't really use the rim for support other than to hold the hood up.

Len

no, it had a plastic brace in the middle, check post 1. I took everything of. I don't have any braces or support.

03-29-2012 05:51 AM

lbacha

That glass brace is actually the support memeber on those tanks (I'm thinking it is an oceanic right). If you take the rim off of a tank like a 55g you will have a huge mess on your hands. I would watch doing it to any tank that has a center brace built into the plastic rim it is there for a reason. I have seen full 55's bow out 2-3" when the center brace broke. Ithen shattered at the top and you know the rest. Any tank that doesn't have a center brace doesn't really use the rim for support other than to hold the hood up.

Okay, here we are a month later and it is time for an update. I was reading through this wondering about the brace function as well. After removing it top and bottom from a 20g tall that was sitting in someone's yard I realized it cannot be purely decorative? I mean it was hell to remove and I have battle scars to prove it. Sure if the tank fails the plastic rim can snap but this tank was sitting out in someone's yard under a tree for years and I was cursing a storm removing that plastic.

As much as I would like to trust removing the rim off my 20g L or the 50g I am picking up this week, it still is in the back of my head that I can come home one afternoon after removing the rim and a mess is waiting for me. Tempted but man you really have to think carefully right? I like Roundar's glass center brace though. Not taking away from the look of the tank and not obvious too.

Insofar as how to deal with a glass lid when you have no rim..

06-26-2011 09:00 PM

redfishsc

Roundar, looks GREAT!!!

06-25-2011 06:15 AM

hungmanchina

Quote:

Originally Posted by roundar

I derimmed my 75g. The glass is 3/8" thick, and it has a glass center brace though.

makes me want to do my 55g. hows it holding up when filled?

06-23-2011 11:59 PM

roundar

I derimmed my 75g. The glass is 3/8" thick, and it has a glass center brace though.

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